The 2024 Alternative Oscars, a.k.a. the Big Picks!

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Sean and Amanda are joined by New York Times film critic Wesley Morris to hand out The Big Picture’s very own Alternative Oscars (32:00). They've included a handful of categories they’ve invented, as well as alternative nominees and winners in the major Academy Awards categories. Before digging into this exercise, they open by talking about ‘Dune: Part Two,’ as well as the state of ‘Oppenheimer’ and director Christopher Nolan as overwhelming Oscar front-runners (1:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Wesley Morris Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Brian Curtis from The Ringer, and I want to tell you about the Press Box podcast.
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0:27.5	Let us help you sort it out.
0:29.5	Join us on the press box. I'm Sean Fennesey. I'm Amanda Davens and this is the big picture a
0:46.6	conversation show about the real Oscars. That's right the alternative Oscars. The
0:51.9	big picks are back that means
0:53.5	Wesley Morris is back on the podcast the New York Times is what critic at large what
0:58.9	is your what is your title I think critic will do it okay at large I mean mean at large I mean we go through this every time but like
1:06.0	just critic I'm a critic at the New York Times that'll do it. Okay chief genius that's what we've landed on.
1:12.0	Wesley we're going to talk about the awards we would give out later today, but you know everybody, the known movie universe is talking about Dune Part 2.
1:22.3	Uh, Dune Part 2, biggest movie of the year so far, by far.
1:25.0	It made 82.5 million dollars domestic here in these United States,
1:30.0	182.5 million dollars worldwide. It's a sensation. It's a large format, IMAX sensation, and you, you haven't seen it.
1:39.0	I have not. I was gonna, you know, it's funny, I don't get invited to screenings anymore by the big studios.
1:47.0	The smaller studios, they would love to have me whenever whenever I can come I try to go as often as I can to their movies as well but no I didn't I said and so if I can't if I don't I mean even going to screen, it's like my movie going exercise, I'm not, I'm flabby, basically.
2:09.3	And I go through these, I'm bingey also, like I will go through sprees of movie going where like I'll spend a whole
2:16.2	work week just doing nothing but going to movies where I mean movies that are already
2:21.0	out by the way not not things have been set up for me to see like I'm paying money to go to the movies all week and I kind of like it
2:29.5	although when you do it during the work week it's a little lonely because it really sometimes it's just you watching you know how to
2:37.2	blow up a you know oil pipe or whatever that movie was I mean a pipeline yeah yeah yeah we're there we go what's your
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